CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction xi
SECTION I
Introductory and Historical
Chapter
I Economic and Legal Presumptions Against a Living Wage 3
II Some Authorities in Favor of an Ethical Standard for Fixing Wages 23
SECTION II
The Basis, Nature, and Content of the Right to a Living Wage
III The Basis and Justification of Rights 43
IV The Right to Subsistence and the Right to a Decent Livelihood 67
V The Right to a Personal Living Wage 81
VI The Right to a Family Living Wage 110
VII A Concrete Estimate of a Living Wage 123
SECTION III
Economic Facts by Which the Right is Conditioned
VII The Underpaid Laborers of America: their Number and Prospects 153
IX Our Industrial Resources and a Living Wage for All 178
X The Forces that Regulate Price 190
XI Rent 199
XII Profits 207
XIII Interest 211
XIV Wages 222
SECTION IV
The Obligations Corresponding to the Right
XV The Obligation of the Employer 237
XVI The Obligation of the Loan-Capitalist, the Landowner, the Consumer, and the Man of Wealth 262
XVII The Obligation of the Laborer 280
XVIII The Obligation of the State 297
XIX Summary and Conclusion 324
Works of Reference 333
Index 341
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